glowworm

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  1. noun Any of various luminous female beetles or beetle larvae of the families Phengodidae and Lampyridae, especially the larva or wingless grublike female of a firefly.

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  • She had said it in jest, but then perhaps remembered the glowworm, and didn't laugh. —  Man from Mundania
  • She plays the glowworm, one of James 'new friends. —  DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS
  • He was motionless as a statue: but the small spark gleaming like a glowworm from the bowl of his tobacco pipe, gave token of his wakefulness. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
  • Unto ye others we say unto you, depart that we speak in peace with this our son and priest And simultaneously appeared in the gloom of the undergrowth three pairs of eyes as luminous as the glowworm, vaster than any human; and beside the souls of the dead King-Gods were terrible hands. —  Witch-Doctors
  • Here was indeed a mystery which I felt it impossible to explain; but, even at that early moment, there seemed to glimmer faintly within the most remote and secret chambers of my intellect a glowworm-like conception of that truth which last night's adventure brought to so magnificent a demonstration. —  The Short-story
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